Challenge:
One of the issues with the plant is the management of the polluted air that leaks out of the plant. However, considering the physics of thermodynamics, hypothetically air leaks out of the nuclear station may be real only during the day because during the night airflow may change direction. This affects the measurements of how much radiation is leaking into the atmosphere.
Solution:
Client Benefits:
We have created an internal air control system prototype that measures vertical airflow. By adapting the existing sensors, a new kind of sensor was created that can measure the speed and direction of a vertical airflow
Solutions:
- Most of the airflow sensors work in a horizontal direction and have small precision range in the vertical tube, so we developed some samples of original airflow sensors and made a better one.
- We couldn't drill or pierce anything inside air duct - we could use only one small technic window. As a result, all device parts were developed exactly for that technic hole.
- Autonomous measurement for weeks with a simple and quick gathering of data. Resulted in module crosscheck and simplification.
